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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Hey Progressives, Are You Motivated Yet?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 4 Comments

Tom Daschle reveals that a secret deal was cut with hospital executives in the summer of 2009 for the hospitals to accepts approximately $155 billion in cuts in exchange for Dems dropping plans for a public option, which would have foisted massive cuts in reimbursements...

My Cash-for-Clunkers Bill = $183

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 10 Comments

I posted earlier about how Cash-for-Clunkers, by driving up the values of used cars, would hit Rhode Islanders because Rhode Island municipalities tax car ownership based on the Blue Book value at December 31 of the prior year.We just received our tax bill for this...

Christine O’Donnell Mocks The Mockers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 12 Comments

Everyone is talking about the new Christine O'Donnell advertisement in which she declares "I'm not a witch...

Nevada Trending Towards Sharron Angle

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 3 Comments

A FoxNews/Pulse Research poll of likely voters in Nevada holds some hope for Sharron Angle:Republican Sharron Angle seems to be solidifying her support in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.In the latest Fox News battleground state poll of likely voters, Angle...

What Is The “Al Gore Support Center” Afraid Of?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 7 Comments

Who knew there was such a thing as the Al Gore Support Center?I stumbled upon the website when tracking down Gore's reputed statement about Al and Tipper being the role models for the 1970 movie Love Story, since I was running a movie clip as...

People Still Have Lots of Questions About Spending in the Kamala Harris Campaign

Boise State U. Shuttered Campus DEI Centers Over Thanksgiving Break

National Spelling Bee Approves Feminist Term 'Womyn' for Kids' Competition

U. Iowa Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55K to Speak on Campus

Biden Admin. Rushing to Auction Off Unused Border Wall Materials Before Trump Takes Office

U. Penn Prof Apologizes After Seemingly Praising Murder of Healthcare CEO

Gender Pablum at USA Today

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 5 Comments

USA Today has a particularly trite, even by USA Today standards, article bemoaning the likely decrease in the number of women in Congress:The prospects for female congressional candidates have been hurt by a combination of a tough political landscape for Democrats — women in Congress...

MSNBC’s Great Lean Forward

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 13 Comments

MSNBC has given up any pretense of being a news organization, and is staking out an explicitly left-wing political persona as part of a new marketing campaign under the slogan, "Lean Forward."As reported by The New York Times:MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2...

Message to Democrats – You’ve Come Back, Now Stay Home

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 1 Comment

The media trolls are out in full force trying to demoralize the opposition by floating stories about how the Democrats have regained their footing, are coming back across the country, and the Republican insurgency peaked early. See Erick Erickson's column for a round up...

While I Was Away

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 4 Comments

Was traveling all day, and of course, stuff happened:Sneaky little Scott Ashjian, or whatever his name is, proved that he is a sneak by secretly taping a conversation with Sharron Angle, and then leaking it to the Man. The real shocker is that Angle, who...

Rare Haughty-Naughty Bumper Sticker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 8 Comments

Spotted by a reader in Chapel Hill, NC (the Ithaca of the South), a now rare and suprisingly well-preserved Haughty-Naughty (Kerry-Edwards) bumper sticker, with a touch of Ohio Moonbat thrown in:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Absolutely Most Overrated Job Description In The History of Humankind

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 27 Comments

I clicked through on a Dan Riehl tweet to his post about a column by Conor Friedersdorf at Forbes, about something or other.I don't know who Conor Friedersdorf is, but Riehl doesn't seem to like him, which is really surprising because Riehl likes just about...

Stuxnet Makes Jump From Computers To Humans

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 11 Comments

The Stuxnet malware apparently was designed to damage or destroy industrial system controllers of the type used in Iran's nuclear program.It is too early to assess what, if any, damage has taken place in Iran because of the secrecy of the Iranian regime. Based on...

NAACP’s Double-Standard On Display at One Nation Rally

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist "elements" in the movement. As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

A Call For Photos From The “One Nation” Rally In Washington

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 16 Comments

Not just any photos.Photos of communist and socialist participants.But not just any photos of communists and socialist participants, because that would be too easy.No, the photos I want are of communists and socialist participants which appear in the mainstream media.I want examples of the mainstream...

Saturday Night Card Game (Gloria Allred Jumps El Race Card Tiburón)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg Whitman,...

What Liberal Non-Conformists Are Wearing On Their Bumpers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 6 Comments

Last Sunday I highlighted the famed "Coexist" bumper sticker, which seems to be everywhere (at least in Ithaca, Berkeley and Cambridge).But there are liberal non-conformists out there, who refuse to wear the "Coexist" sticker on their cars just because all their friends are doing it.Melissa...

NY Times’ Christine O’Donnell Relativity

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 4 Comments

Is this NY Times profile of Christine O'Donnell not too bad, or am I just so used to complete, all-out hack jobs when it comes to O'Donnell that anything short of an all-out hack job seems okay?An Overnight Political Sensation Re-Emerges Into the Media Glare--------------------------------------------...